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1. Have you ever been bullied? Yes.
2. What are your views on the issue? Bullies will get what's coming to them, from me or someone else.
3. what do you think could prevent bullying from happening? Hurt the bully. Hurt them bad. mad

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my friends get bullied and i bet i've been talked badly about more than once but i don't really care about me, i do care if my friends are hurt though and i've been standing up for them more recently. i kinda doubt that there is much anything we can do about it though. they all have different reasons whether they just don't like the person or they just want attention. teacher i find don't usually do much if anything but even if they do it almost never stops these people. i mean we can stand up for these people who get torn inside and/or out but most of them will then just make fun of you. even so i'm going to keep on doing it and i'll probably pound a couple on my way^^'. its something that the bullies have to face with inside of them. cause bullying IS a choice and some people just make bad choices(some more than others). so on this matter i say only time will tell.

I suggest martial arts. If you get good enough (and you can!) you won't even have to hit back. You can just dodge until they tire out. I myself employ this technique but I usually just choose to end it with a punch to the temple and knock them out.

This is a really good suggestion! Though there are other forms of self-defense that are effective aside from physical self defense. First off, and many people aren't aware of this...but sometimes bullies can be dealt with, with the right attitude towards them...they're predators, they feed off your fear, but if they believe that you're not scared, then they'll move on. Act as though you have an attitude that makes them feel like "she/he's a waste of my time bullying". How? Have a offensive attitude towards them like they're not worth your time (which is probably true!)...walk around and act like you're better then them (and not just in a saturday morning program mantra "I'm a good person, I'm a good person, I'm a good person" they will probably continue breaking you down). Your look, no matter what your 'rents and superiors say, DOES matter! I'm not saying go on a shopping spree and shell out 100's of dollars for designer threads, dress, "tougher"...have you noticed that most people at school that dress like they're an extra from High School Musical and last year's Britney Spears tend to have threats that they'll be torn apart (physically) by bullies, and gang raped by guys with malliciously low self-esteem? Where as those that dress (oh, and have an attitude like nothing bothers them) um, "normally" hardly have anything happen to them? It's cuz they somehow subliminally make the bullies think that they have nothing valuable to offer.

BIG tip: Travel in a group of people that you get along well with! Bullies HATE and FEAR groups!

Personally (I'm not in highschool anymore), I was "schooled" well by my middle sister who, as I advised in the first paragraph, acted like nothing bothered her, drew a lot of positive attention and people towards her, and, not that she needed to try...always had large groups of people with her. She didn't know physical self defense, but she DID know, um, "social self defense"...like she got along with everyone, didn't act like she puts out to any guy that comes along, didn't act like she had anything to hide, she was very self-aware of what a good person she was...so she hardly had anyone wanting to harm her (well, even if she did, there were a horde of people willing to be her bodygauards! lol!). So, when I was in highschool...I kinda followed what my sister was like when she was in high school...I was really social, had an attitude that everyone was cool (ever heard of the saying "I'm okay, so you're okay"? It DOES make sense!), I didn't have as big of a group as my sister did, but the people that I surrounded myself with respected me (not that I was some big shot, though), and just generally minded my own business (oh yeah, if you can step into a situation that you feel that you can help resolve and nothing bad can happen to you, GREAT! If not, then stay out of it...well, at least stay out of the bully's way, but if you feel you should do something...you could try to be a friend to the person that's being harmed).

Well, there's my 2 cents...though donations are welcome! j/k...bad joke.

1. no
2. it is very bad i have seen the effects, but i ... corrected the problem with the bully
3. lemme at em'

I used to get picked on my bullies, untill I started standing up for myself. Then they kinda left me alone, but I felt that I needed to help those sho couldnt stand up for themselves. I remember the first day I started a new high school, after moving, I ws in gym and a kid from the period before who I kinda started becoming friends with was also in there. So we were hanging out and some jerk comes up and starts picking on him, so I stood up and told him basicly to back off, and he kinda gave me a look like he was gonna kill me or somthing, but I didnt back down, so he threw me a fack punck, like when it stops before it hits your face, and I didnt even blink, mostly because I saw it coming. he took off after then but didnt really bither with me too much, and only ocasionally picked on my friend, at least when I was around, but I always intervened before he could hurt him or anything. He eventually stopped picking on him all together and probably moved onto someone else. But not all bullies are bad peopel, I know it sounds crazy but hear me out. Some people bullie people to not get bulied themself, one of my friends used to bully me, among other peopel, and we eventually became friends over comon interests, thats when he told me that he bullied peopel because he was afraid to get bullied by another group of kids who were his so called "friends". If its possible, try talking to these people, maybe they are doing the same thing.